MODERN LOVE
MODERN LOVE
YOUNG AMERICANS
Radu Prepeleac
80年代インダストリアルもそうだったが、マンチェスターのモダンラヴ・レコードでのDemdike StareやAndy Stottなどの音楽を、いまだにカルトミュージックなどとカテゴライズするのは間違っている。モダンラヴのサブレーベルYoung AmericansからリリースされているDaphne OramやSuum Cuiqueのミュージックコンクレート作品を聴けば、その理由が明白だろう。ダフニ・オラム ( 1925 -2003 )は英国の作曲家兼電子音楽家で電子音を作成するための「Oramics ( 電子音を作成するために視像を使用した合成技術 )」の創造者でもあり、BBCのスタジオエンジニアでもあった。テープレコーダーと磁気テープ、光学シンセサイザーが唯一電子音楽制作のツールでもあった時代の、正弦
DAPHNE ORAM / ORAMIC - Deluxe Vinyl Edition ( YOUNGAM001 )
波発振器から奏でられる電子音楽とミュージックコンクレートのなんと新鮮なことよ。当時こうした音響は最初ラジオやテレビ、劇場用のサウンドトラック/バックグラウンドミュージック、コマーシャルとして使われ、その後ジャック・クレイトン ( Jack Clayton ) の1961年のスリラー映画用電子音や、作曲家テイアー・マスグレーヴ ( Thea Musgrave ) や Ivor Walsworth
とのオペラの共同作業を含む作品などへと発展していった。Wire誌はThe Sounds Of New Atlantisと題してOramicsの背後にある英国の開発途上の電気音響学の音楽および無線電話機の芸術、BBCにおける役割、音技術のスタジオ作品および開発、デザインおよび構造と力と同時に、ダフニ・オラムの音の物理的・形而上の様相を一致させるにあたっての進歩や癒し回復の力、インスピレーションなどについてプレゼンしている。
50年代の電子音楽とイギリスの2人の女性作曲家、ダフニ・オラム( Daphne Oram )や、ロン・グレーナー ( Ron Grainer ) のSFテレビ・シリーズDoctor Whoのテーマ音楽で有名なデリア・アン・ダービシャー ( Delia Ann Derbyshire )のミュージックコンクレート、シンセサイザー・インストゥルメントを聴いているとラジオとテレビから流れるホワイトノイズすらもまだ新鮮に感じたあの50年代独特の、エレクトロニクス音楽の匂いや色彩が立ち現れる。余談だが、ダービシャーの死後、267本のオープンリール式のテープおよび無数の書類の1つの箱が、彼女の屋根裏で見つけられたという。ほとんどすべては2006年にディジタル化されたが、どれもまだ公表されていないという。時代の要請を受けてこれらも近いうちに発表されるだろう。
http://daphneoram.org/
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-daphne-oram.shtm
DAPHNE ORAM / ORAMIC - Deluxe Vinyl Edition ( YOUNGAM001 )
A
1. Introduction
2. Power Tools
3. Bird Of Parallax
4. In A Jazz Style
5. Purring Interlude
B
6. Contrasts Essconic
7. Lego Builds It
8. Pompie Ballet ( Excerpt )
9. Intertel
10. Ardwick High School No.1
11. Look At Oramics
12. Rotolock
C
13. Purple Dust
14. High Speed Flight
15. Studio Experiment No.1
16. Four Aspects
17. Kia Ora
D
18. Dr Faustus Suite
19. Ardwick High School No.2
20. Tumblewash
21. Studio Experiment No.2
22. Snow
E
23. Rockets In Ursa Major ( Excerpt 1 )
24. Food Preservation
25. Studio Experiment No.3
26. Bala
27. Episode Metallic
28. Studio Experiment No.4
F
29. Ardwick High School No.3
30. Fanfare Of Graphs
31. Studio Experiment No.5
32. Brociliande
33. Mary Had A Little Lamb
34. Incidental Music For Invasion ( Excerpts )
G
35. Costain Suite
36. Rockets In Ursa Major ( Excerpt 2 )
37. Passacaglia
38. Missile Away
H
39. Pulse Persephone
40. Ardwick High School No.4
41. Nestea
42. Rockets In Ursa Major ( Excerpt 3 )
43. Conclusion
44. Studio Jinks
recordings and photographs taken from the Dapne Oram
collection, Goldsmiths, University of London
photographs taken by Brian Worth, Ken Philip and Martin Cook
additional photographs ⓒ Edinburgh Evening News
design & layout - Radu Prepeleac
vinyl cut by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
www.modern-love.co.uk/young-americans
made in UK
YOUNG AMERICANS 2010
daphne oram - rockets in ursa major (excerpt 2)
Daphne Oram youtube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=DAPHNE+ORAM&oq=DAPHNE+ORAM&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=7563l7563l0l7808l1l1l0l0l0l0l175l175l0.1l1l0
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YOUNG AMERICANS RECORDS
ダフニ・オラムのアーカイブに加えアフリカで作られたフィールド録音と「2001年」およびジャック・クレイトンの「Innocents」のために作られた音響効果を含んでいるこの4枚組もヤングアメリカンズから近々リリースされる。この第1巻は、オラムの最も重要で最も個人的な録音が収録されたシリーズの1作目。
DAPHNE ORAM / THE ORAM TAPE; Volume One ( YOUNGAM003 )
Just For You (Excerpt 1) / Eton / Innocents / Anchor Butter / Manchester 2 (1962) / Wool (1967) / Oxford / Hydrogen Tones / 2001 Effects Tape 1 / 2001 Effects Tape 2 (Excerpt) / Phensic (1961) / New Atlantis (1963) / Just For You (Excerpt 2) / Winters Journey (1958) / Pulse Persephone / Light Music (Excerpt) / Stroke / Shell Flight (Excerpt) / Anacin Components / G.O.S. (Excerpt / Costain (Outtake) / London University (Excerpt) (1968) / Encephalagraph / Anacin (Excerpt) / Hamlet / For Granada (1967) / Oramics Demonstration (Excerpt) / Electronic Sound Patterns (Excerpt) / Pure Tone Excerpts / Canadian Idyll / Hospital / Mermaid (Excerpt) / Shell / Illustrations (Fireworks) / Ursa Major (Outtake) (1962) / Ursa Major (1962) / Oddments (Excerpt) / Osram And Rank Pulse Experiment / Pulse Pitch Experiment / Sardonica (Excerpt) / Progs (Excerpt) / Barclays Bank (Excerpt) / Birth of Baby / Speech Test
made in UK
YOUNG AMERICANS 2011
Deluxe quadruple vinyl comes in a gatefold edition, including 46 previously unheard recordings from the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, remastered and cut at D&M in Berlin Two years in the making, this 46 track deluxe 4LP edition features two and a half hours of previously unreleased recordings from Daphne Oram’s archives. None of this material has ever been available before and has been painstakingly compiled and restored from over 400 tapes before being mastered at Dubplates & Mastering and cut at 45RPM for extra depth. Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes and documents behind. This important collection of material eventually made its way to Goldsmiths College, London, who have been administering it on behalf of the Daphne Oram Trust for the last few years. The collection holds over 400 tapes made by Oram during her lifetime, and 211 of those have been archived and catalogued by the college so far. “The Daphne Oram Tapes: Volume One” is the result of almost two years spent trawling through the archive in an attempt to piece together a coherent document of one of the most pioneering and genuinely experimental characters in electronic music history. Although some of Oram’s recordings have surfaced on the “Oramics” compilation, this set reveals a much more complex, dark, sometimes disturbing and often beautiful body of work which has, until now, been partially obscured by the more recognisable Radiophonic bleeps and whirrs the Workshop is best known for. This first volume focuses on Oram’s love of experimental forms, of Musique Concrète, of the science and mystery of sound and composition. It comes at a time when her work is only just starting to gain wider acknowledgment in scholarly as well as popular circles. The “Oramics” machine (the first electronic musical instrument in history to be designed and built by a woman) has gone on display at the Science Museum in London, an important step in what will no doubt be a sustained effort to assert Oram’s rightful position as one of the most important figures in modern music. Working through the archive has been a lifechanging experience, revealing a wealth of musical treasures that include recordings and sound effects made for ‘2001’ and Jack Clayton’s “the Innocents”, all the way through to field recordings made in Africa. This first volume, put together with the help of Goldsmiths and Daphne’s family, is the first in a planned series that will, for the first time, make Oram’s most important and personal recordings available for public consumption.
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Mid Century Electronica Pt.1
***MyAtomicShadow - 2011/10/26
A short piece featuring my vintage, tube HP sine wave generators, tape loops and ring modulators with a photographic homage to the early pioneers of electronica.... Daphne Oram in twin set, the impish Delia Derbyshire of the early BBC Radiophonic Workshop, several tweedy boffins in their music labs, Karlheinz Stockhausen and so many others. A different age when innovation and ingenuity triumphed over the many technical limitations of the age.
Abstract music soundtrack re-mixed and produced by Stephen Howell of Hollow Sun using traditional techniques in a digital age.
Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa
**Delia Derbyshire: Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa | http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/
http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/
Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 1/7
http://youtu.be/MA6Fb0nuAYw
*****straypixel - 2010/04/05
The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan Matthew Sweet travels to The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire's private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about the wider career and working methods of the woman who realised Ron Grainer's original theme to Doctor Who.
Further details from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky
This is part 1 of 7; the programme is divided into chunks to fit YouTube's 10 minute length limit.
Photographs are BBC/public domain. Used, by permission, from Ray White's 'Radiophonic Gallery', http://whitefiles.org/rwg/.
Delia Derbyshire
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Delia+Derbyshire&oq=Delia+Derbyshire&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=0l0l0l114041l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire
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Daphne Oram "The Same Trade As Mozart" BBC2 - 3/8/69
**TheUntiedKnot - 2011/10/08
Sorry about the quality but I thought it was worth uploading as I can't see this footage anywhere on YouTube right now.
This is a short extract from a UK BBC programme (originally broadcast on 3rd August 1969) about experimental electronic music featuring Daphne demonstrating the Oramics machine. If you are fan of early electronic music you will be aware of the importance of this rare footage. The Oramics machine was discovered in a barn in France a few years ago and at the moment resides in the Science Museum in London.
More info on Daphne Oram here http://daphneoram.org/
I would also advise you to buy this incredible 2 CD set of Daphne's music
http://boomkat.com/cds/31189-daphne-oram-oramics
SUUM CUIQUE / MIDDEN ( YoungAm002 )
A1. Lithic Reduction
A2. Red Binary
A3. Entropy
B1. Cyclic Redundancy
B2. Frontogenesis
B3. Even In Death
limited to 400 copies
made in UK
YOUNG AMERICANS 2010
Suum Cuique - Frontogenesis
http://youtu.be/UtpMmBWs3Nk
Suum Cuique-Lithic Reductio
Suum Cuique - Midden
http://soundcloud.com/modernlove/sets/suum-cuique-midden
Suum Cuique (pronouned Soom Kwi-Kwe, Latin for "To Each His Own") follows the remit of Young Americans to explore uncharted, experimental, and personal synthscapes, guided by the hand of intuition with an entirely analogue array of machines. There's a confidence and ability to these productions which elevates them above the masses of lo-fi synth meanderings currently murmuring in the underground, occupying the tantalising space between Eliane Radigue and James Ferraro, or Thomas Köner and Daphne Oram, creating a dialogue between their shared and opposing aesthetics to give an emotional response with deeply chilling and engrossing results. In 'Lithic Reduction' concrète textures grind like a millstone to release powdery clouds of analog dust, settling only to be dispersed by gusts of blackened distortion, whereas 'Red Binary' is distinctly electronic, revolving around muted radar bleeps like the resonance from SAW II soundtracking a speckly pill experience that's starting to go west. The album's centrepiece, the aptly titled 'Entropy' nods to the sublimely stoic work of Eleh, radiating microtonal bass shifts while a bitter northerly wind builds in intensity. Brilliantly out of place, 'Cyclic Redundancy' opens the flipside with a majestically submerged slab of completely obliterated and submerged 4/4, like an unholy collusion between Mika Vainio, Sandwell and Bernard Parmegiani soundtracking a trade union rave in the 1950's, before 'Even In Death...' conjures imagery of a eulogy given by a Mongolian throat singer with crows circling overhead. Strictly limited copies, catch it while you can.
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Modern Love
Profile: Part of Boomkat.com, the online manifestation of Pelicanneck Records in Manchester.
Modern Love is a record label based in Manchester, UK. We've released records by Claro Intelecto, Move D, Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, Deepchord Presents Echospace, Bitstream, Kaman Leung, Mariel Ito, Pendle Coven, MLZ, Troubleshooter, Ilektro and others.
Modern Love has two associated imprints: Hate and Daphne.
Sublabels: Boomkat Selected Mixtapes, Daphne, Hate, Young Americans
Contact Info:
Modern Love
c/o boomkat.com
Unit 101 Ducie House
37 Ducie Street
Manchester
M1 2JW
United Kingdom
shlom@modern-love.co.uk
Sites:
http://www.modern-love.co.uk/
http://soundcloud.com/modernlove
http://twitter.com/ourmodernlove
http://twitter.com/#!/boomkatonline
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Radu Prepeleac
ジャケットにおける美的感覚/グラフィックデザインから先端音楽をみつめてみると、大雑把に言えば、70年代後半から80年代はジョイ・ディヴィジョンやニューオーダーにみられるファクトリ・レコードでのピーター・サヴィル ( Peter Saville )のフォントとジャケットデザイン→。そして当時雑誌Faceの表紙とレイアウトを担当し、Clock DVA、Cabaret Voltaireなどのインダストリ
アル系のジャケットデザインを手掛けていたNeville Brody(ネヴィル・ブロディ)のタイポグラファー/グラフィック・デザイン→。90年代に入るとMowaxのすべてのジャケットデザインから、現在のHonest Jonsのアーティスト、Actress、Schackleton、Vladislavなど多くのジャケットデザインを手掛けているWill Bankhead ( 自身のノイズ系レーベルTTTも設立している ) と→、今回のブログでのすべての作品のジャケットデザイン/レイアウトを手掛けているUKマンチェスターのBoomkat Ltdをベースに活動しているRadu Prepeleacのグラフィックデザインが先端音楽を引っ張っていると言えよう。Radu PrepeleacはModern Loveなどのジャケットデザイン/レイアウトだけではなく商業カタログ、フライヤー、パッケージ・デザインのための印刷設計作成なども制作している。彼は21世紀音楽の未来を予見するうえでも最重要のグラフィックデザイナー/アーティストのひとりだ。
新しい音楽の入り口は音楽そのものだけではなく、ジャケットアートから入るという手段もあることを忘れてはならない。
small spaces by Radu Prepeleac
small spaces from Radu Prepeleac on Vimeo.
Radu Prepeleac
Profile: Graphic Designer from Manchester, UK.
Email: radu@raduprepeleac.co.uk
Sites:
raduprepeleac.co.uk
http://www.raduprepeleac.co.uk/
raduprepeleac.ro,
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Radu+Prepeleac
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DEMDIKE STARE / ELEMENTAL ( LOVE073 + 074 )
Chrysanthe
1-A1. Mephisto's Lament
1-B1. Kommunion
1-B2. Unction
Violetta
2-A1. Mnemosyne
2-B1. In The Wake Of Chronos
2-B2. Violetta
wriiten by Miles Whittaker, Sean Canty
artwork by Andy Votel
layout by Radu Prepeleac
released in quad-gatefold sleeve, EP's 3 and 4 released separately.
Run-out grooves: EP1 - A - All This Is Yours
EP1 - B - a+b/a = a/b = ∞ Pudel Pudel Pudel
EP2 - A - Autista E'matto
EP2 - B - Keat's Retreat
made in UK
MODERN LOVE 2011
パート1&2は今年の暮れに、パート3&4は2012年の始めにリリースされるDemdike Stareの4部構成の新しい美術品のような作品Elementalを待ってこの黙示録の今年が暮れ、インダストリアルなアポカリプティックサウンドの新しい年が明けるだろう。
Demdike Stare - Live - February 2011
*Live at XOYO, February 2011. They were bloody amazing!
Demdike Stare - Violetta
http://youtu.be/RGV9mo1Fsd4
*GHOSTCONSOLE3K / 2011/09/10
Demdike Stare - Violetta
"This heretofore unreleased track wasn't on Tryptych (TMT Review), but you should buy the album anyway because it will change your world." — http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-demdike-stare-violetta
Video by http://twitter.com/#!/lovelockandload
Support the label: http://www.modern-love.co.uk/
"All rights reserved for the producers of these tracks. All the choons that I upload are for promotional use only. Remember: If you like one of these choons, support the producer and buy it! (if applicable) The purpose of this channel is to promote these producers, not to rip them off in any way."
DEMDIKE STARE / TRYPTYCH ( MODER LOVE LOVE 067 )
Forest Of Evil
1-1: Forest Of Evil (Dusk)
1-2: Forest Of Evil (Dawn)
1-3: Quiet Sky
Liberation Through Hearing
2-1: Caged In Stammheim
2-2: Eurydice
2-3: Regolith
2-4: The Stars Are Moving
2-5: Bardo Thodol
2-6: Matilda's Dream
2-7: Nothing But The Night 2
2-8: Library Of Solomon Book 1
2-9: Library Of Solomon Book 2
Voices Of Dust
3-1: Black Sun
3-2: Hashshashin Chant
3-3: Repository Of Light
3-4: Of Decay & Shadows
3-5: Rain & Shame
3-6: Desert Ascetic
3-7: Viento De Levante
3-8: Leptonic Matter
3-9: A Tale Of Sand
3-10: Filtered Through Prejudice
3-11: Past Is Past
profile: Lancastrian experimental venture made of Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker.
Demdike (aka Elizabeth Southern) was the ringleader of the Pendle Witches.
accused from three murders, she died in prison in 1622 before coming to trial.
members: Miles Whittaker, Sean Canty
artwork by Andy Votel
layout - Radu Prepeleac
Notes
released in an oversized eight-panel gatefold sleeve with exclusive cover artwork.
previously released as three separate LPs on Modern Love: LOVE060 , LOVE065 & LOVE066 .
tracks 1-3, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 3-10 & 3-11 are bonus tracks.
**format: 3 x CD, Compilation
made in UK
MODERN LOVE 2011
http://meandogblues.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pookawig
http://twitter.com/demdikestare
DEMDIKE STARE / VOICES OF DUST ( MODERN LOVE LOVE066 )
A: Black Sun
Hashshashin Chant
Repository of Light
Of Decay & Shadows
B: Rain & Shame
Desert Ascetic
Viento de Levante
Leptonic Matter
A Tale of Sand
mastered by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering
artwork by Andy Votel
layout by Radu Prepeleac
MODERN LOVE 2010
Track of the Day #19: Ambient darkness as one enters Demdike Stare's 'Forest of Evil (Dusk)'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46i96MouknM
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ANDY STOTT / WE STAY TOGETHER ( LOVE 072 )
1. Submission
2. Posers
3. Bad Wires
4. We Stay Together (Part One)
5. Cherry Eye
6. Cracked
made in UK
http://www.myspace.com/andystott_modernlove
Andy Stott - Submission
http://youtu.be/eVZxGn035v8
Andy Stott - Posers
**mickooyy 2011/09/29
Buy it here - http://boomkat.com/downloads/447797-andy-stott-we-stay-together
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
http://www.discogs.com/Andy-Stott-We-Stay-Together/master/373491
Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: LOVE72
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, House
All rights reserved for the producers of these tracks.All the tunes that I upload are for promotional use only.
Remember: If you like one of these tunes, support the producer and buy it! The purpose of this channel is to promote these producers, not to rip them off in any way.
ANDY STOTT / PASSED ME BY ( LOVE69 )
A1. Signature
A2. New Ground
B1. North To South
B2. Intermittent
C. Dark Details
D1. Execution
D2. Passed Me By
mastered by Loop-O
*Sides A, B, & C play at 45 RPM, side D plays at 33⅓ RPM.
'33⅓' on side B run out is crossed out.
made in UK
MODERN LOVE 2011
Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Andy Stott - Dark Details
http://youtu.be/bHweamNAkjY
MILES / FACETS ( LOVE 068 )
A1. Flawed
A2. Lustre
B1. Primer
B2. On The Fly
mastered by Loop-O
mastered at Dubplates & Mastering
photography by Jacob Gayer
limited to 700 copies
made in UK
MODERN LOVE 2011
Aliases: DJ Miles, Millie, MLZ
In Groups: Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution, Demdike Stare, Millie & Andrea, PCB, Pendle Coven, Suum Cuique
Variations: Viewing All | Miles Whittaker | Miles
M Whittaker | Miles James Whittaker | Whittaker
Miles - Lustre
Miles - Flawed
http://youtu.be/zICytX9j6mU
Miles - Primer
http://youtu.be/GKQIJ7UKgFA
G.H. / GROUND EP ( LOVE071 )
A. Ground
B1. Albedo
B2. Earth
made in UK
limited to 500 copies
MODERN LOVE 2011
Gary Howell
Real Name: Gary Howell
In Groups: Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution, PCB, Pendle Coven
Variations: Viewing All | Gary Howell | G.H. G Howell
G.H. - Earth
G.H. - Ground (Modern Love)
http://youtu.be/zlrOsMnDix4
G.H. - Albedo
http://youtu.be/2-IL0TOpWSg
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PETE SWANSON / MAN WITH POTENTIAL ( TYPE 102 )
Man With Potential
A1. Misery Beat
A2. Remote View
A3. A&Ox0
B1. Far Out
B2. Man With Potential
B3. Face The Music
Man With Garbage
1. Self-Help
2. Returns
3. Challenger A
4. Challenger B
mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
vinyl cut / mastered by Rashad
photography by Christine Taylor
layout by John Twells, Radu Prepeleac
*limited vinyl edition with bonus CD album "Man With Garbage".
Man With Potential
recorded live to stereo at Squeaky's pad in Estacada, Oregon. Xmas 2010.
Man With Garbage
recorded at home 2010.
"Self Help" originally released on "Waiting For The Ladies".
"Challengers" originally released on "Challenger".
"Returns" is unreleased.
Layout by John Twells.
made in US
TYPE 2011
Pete Swanson - Remote View
CICCIOLINA HOLOCAUST + SERMONIZER / ALBEIT ALBEIT - SIBELIUS ( FN 002 )
Albeit Albeit
A1. Cicciolina Holocaust – Zigomar
A2. Cicciolina Holocaust – In Tempore Non Suspecto
A3. Cicciolina Holocaust – Silent Killing
Sibelius Spiders
B1. Sermonizer – Rosalita
B2. Sermonizer – Mystery
B3. Sermonizer – Acid86 To Dica68
B4. Sermonizer – Sibelius Spiders
B5. Sermonizer – Copulator
Vocals [Guest] – Meana Rozzi
Other [Guest Aura] – Aurelium Spitty
a&r – Fré De Vos
design – Radu Prepeleac
engineer – Roberto Napoli
mastered by – Loop-o
performer – Florim Prishtina (tracks: A1 to A3), Rezart Veseli (tracks: A1 to A3)
side A recorded 1984, Firenze (Italy). Previously released as private cassette edition. Digitally remastered directly from analogue tapes.
© Prishtina/Veseli
side B recorded and mixed at Agucchi Home Studios 1983-1986 on 4-track tape recorder.
© Sermonizer
© & ℗ Forced Nostalgia 2011
Pressed up in a limited run of 550 copies
made in Belgium
FORCED NOSTALGIA 2011
Cicciolina Holocaust - Silent Killing
さて今年もあと2週間で終わる・・・・・・・・・・・
東日本大地震と放射線/セシウム汚染に塗れたとんでもない一年だったな。
それもまだ終息 ( 収束 ? ) したわけではなく、来年はもっと悲劇的に自覚症状が顕現してくるのだろう。食物や飲料水から来る内部被曝や、大きな地震もまだ起こるっていうしね。
深夜の都会を歩いてごらん、週末といえど、ものの見事に人の気配がしなくなった。風営法を持ち出すまでもなく、今時アゲアゲのテクノダンシングじゃねえだろう。先端音楽はいまもそのアポカリプティック世界を歌い続けている。
ボク周辺の出来事と言えばremodelレーベルを立ち上げたことくらいかな、
誤解されているので言っておくが、このプロジェクトにボクはプロデューサー/イメージデザイナーとして関わっただけで、すべてのディレクションと運営はスタジオワープがされていること。スペインのSemanticaのPrologue / Various Artists Compilation ( remodel 02 ) もオーガナイズしたけれど、実際にCDは店頭に並んでいるのかな・・?。それすらわからないw。
まあ、そういうわけで、remodel recordsも立ち上げただけのことで、その後の動きはさっぱり・・・。いまはよほど力あるパブリシティと動きをとらなきゃ、リリースしたからってそれだけのことに過ぎない。300枚や500枚プレスしたからって制作費を考えれば、自己満足か、ボランティアのようなもの。届けたいひとに届けられさえしたら、それでパーフェクト。
スタジオワープとは、来年の春までに約束のモーマスのアルバムをプロデュースしてとりあえずこのプロジェクトは終わりにしたい。
来年はそれこそすべてのことを緻密に計画し、覚悟してかからなきゃな、と思っています。